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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1913
Page
7
A fragment discusses marriage roles and money in domestic life, contrasting male spending with a wife’s spending duties. It shifts to a proposed Pennsylvania constitutional amendment authorizing up to fifty million dollars in bonds for highway improvements, detailing legal framing and the official copy by Secretary of the Commonwealth Robert McAfee.
In Washington during a senate inquiry last fall J Pierpont Morgan visited the Treasury revenue office. A cler k asked the value of his London town house items to assess duty. Morgan replied the value would be seven to ten million dollars.
An affable German woman on Armour Boulevard cheerfully greets a passing doctor and asks about her family. The doctor humorously replies that the "ostermobecla" is not well, saying it is in the hospital for repairs.
A long text outlines a joint resolution to amend Article Three Section Seven of the Pennsylvania Constitution. It lists dozens of local or special-law prohibitions and exceptions, including regulating labor, and sets the framework for a statewide amendment process.
A long text outlines how counties cities boroughs and townships may alter charters create districts regulate elections and govern taxes borrowing and debt. It cites Joint Resolution No 1 proposing amendments to the Pennsylvania Constitution Article X Section 15 and details debt limits revenue requirements for waterworks transit and public works projects with voter approval thresholds and supermajority rules.
A proposed concurrent resolution amends section three of article eight of the Pennsylvania Constitution. It states judges elected statewide may be chosen at general or municipal elections as needed and that all judicial district and local offices elections occur on the municipal election day in odd-numbered years with the assembly allowed to set a different day. It preserves ongoing terms for judges ending in odd years until January of the next even year.
A joint resolution proposes amending section one of article nine to allow classifying subjects for graded taxes while preserving exemptions for public property, religious worship places, burial sites not for private profit, and purely public charity institutions. The corrected text notes taxation remains under general laws with uniform application within territorial limits. OBERT MCAFEH, Secretary of the Commonwealth.
A legislative item proposes an amendment to the Pennsylvania Constitution's Section 1. The text notes a resolution and indicates movement toward constitutional change. Further details remain unclear in the fragment.
Guardian of Mabel Blanche Stephens Sarah N Stephens and Mary A Stephens petitions the Orphan Court of Indiana County on Sept 22 1913 for a private sale of a three wards coal interest of about 8 60 acres described with mining rights roads railroads surface openings and opening rights subject to railroad rights and dower rights with an estimated ward interest of 2800. Administrator notices follow for William S Davison estate inviting claims and proofs from known creditors and heirs.
Multiple public notices including letters testamentary for M B Sharretts estate executors Elizabeth Sharrotts and others warn creditors to file claims or pay debts. Also dissolution notice for Frank Sukosky and John Sukonsky, executor notice for George Poole estate, and bids for 3 inch oak plank for Blairsville bridge. Includes caution against Blanche Costello and executors notice for Nancy Helman estate.
Notice that W L Neal Alexander Gilmore Alexander Cunningham and others will apply to the Governor of Pennsylvania on October 1 1913 under acts of 1876 and 1909 to form War mers and Minders Bank of Kent Pennsylvania with capital of twenty two thousand dollars. The proposed bank would be in Jacksonville Indiana County and authorized to lend money discount notes coins bills and perform banking activities and to sue and hold rights under the 1876 act. Solicitor Harry W Frey Indiana Pa dated June 25 1913. 26 13te.
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